Wed Mar 21, 2018 12:32 pm by chieflittlehorse
With the Lexus keys we usually have no problems. A lady once came in and said she had her key cut at Sears and it worked the doors but wouldn't go into the ignition. I measured her key with my micrometer and it was a little bit thicker but not by much. So I just took out my pippin file and filed it until it was about the same as her original key. It went into her ignition just fine afterwards and she was happy.
But for the Honda keys after the machine decodes it and cuts it, it will go in hard into the lock. My boss says this doesn't happen if we buy the blanks from Honda, I guess it just happens when we buy the aftermarket keys. I'm going to start getting the measurements of this key from my micrometer next time. I know I can get the width and thickness of this key but I'm also going to measure the left over thickness from the key on the cut part to see if it's the same as their original. I might even have to measure the laser cut part of the key to see if it's the same because maybe our cutter shrank in size after cutting so many keys.
I do think we should buy a new cutter just to see if that solves the problem.
I do remember before I did any automotive seeing a locksmith file a Honda key with a flat file on the both sides of the key. He told me he did that because the Honda keys get stuck if he didn't.
Thanks for the advice Werewolf! Oh, what machine do you use because you mentions cards, our machine is digital. But we also have a machine that can trace the Honda keys but we rarely use it.
Thanks again!
CLH!
You leave my GRAPHITE alone!!!